The Ozymandias Parade

What Does Corruption Look Like?

Meet the Kienholz Ozymandias, as clueless as the deluded despot in the famous Shelley sonnet

What Does Corruption Look Like?
Diana Al-Hadid Makes a Sculpture

Diana Al-Hadid Makes a Sculpture

The birth of a multi-hued Venus

Diana Al-Hadid Makes a Sculpture
Hurricane Sandy

A Climate Change in the Art World?

The art community is digging out, drying off, counting its losses, helping its neighbors–and starting to prepare for the hurricanes of the future

A Climate Change in the Art World?
De Kooning Paints a Picture

De Kooning Paints a Picture

The former ARTnews editor traces the “Hamlet-like history” of an Abstract Expressionist classic

De Kooning Paints a Picture
Pat Steir Paints a Painting

Pat Steir Paints a Painting

The visceral process of pouring, dripping, pushing, squirting, and shooting from the hip

Pat Steir Paints a Painting
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Edward Kienholz and Nancy Reddin Kienholz, The Ozymandias Parade, 1985, mixed media tableau.
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Studio assistants, family, and friends, including a team from Cre8tive YouTH*ink, are helping to restore paintings in Ray Smith's Gowanus studio, which was inundated with seven feet of water. "It's like swamp archeology," he says.
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The former ARTnews editor traces the “Hamlet-like history” of an Abstract Expressionist classic Read More

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Pat Steir Paints a Painting

The visceral process of pouring, dripping, pushing, squirting, and shooting from the hip
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Mitchell Paints a Picture

A renowned critic watches Joan Mitchell paint not one painting, but two Read More

Marcel Dzama. Welcome to the land of the bat, 2008. Courtesy of the artist and David Zwirner Gallery, New York.
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Skeletons Out of the Closet

A survey of museum tours celebrating Halloween, Day of the Dead, and more Read More

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Fred Wilson Creates an Installation

A basic vocabulary of painted flags and blown glass becomes an evocative meditation on color and race Read More

Andrés Sánchez Galque, Los tres mulatos de Esmeraldas, (Portrait of Don Francisco de Arabe and Sons Pedro and Domingo), 1599, oil on canvas.
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From Kongo to Othello to Tango to Museum Shows

Artists and scholars are taking increasingly nuanced approaches to tracking the image–and influence–of Africans in Western art Read More

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Hank Willis Thomas Stages a Photo Shoot

How Sanford Biggers came to strike a pose as a two-faced dandy Read More

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Mainland China’s Mega-Collectors

A new generation of entrepreneurs is snapping up works by international contemporary art stars to amass major and sometimes museum-worthy collections. But the recent arrests of several art-world figures have buyers worried about government scrutiny Read More

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Clyfford Still’s Figures Run Deep

New scholarship on the artist’s early work reveals an unexpected ancestry to his trademark abstractions
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